Re: Local Policy & Remote Desktop Connection

From: Miha Pihler (mihap-news_at_atlantis.si)
Date: 06/14/04 

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 09:13:18 +0200

Hi,

are user accounts members of "Remote Desktop Users" group? If not make every
user account that needs remote desktop access member of this group.

I hope this helps,

Mike

"Reda Hanna" <RedaHanna@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BC83CD18-4D54-41CC-8C47-BC61985D4ECF@microsoft.com...
> Local Policy & Remote Desktop Connection
>
> Our Network is composed of a Windows 2000 SBS Server and all Workstations
> are running Windows 2000 OS ...
>
> Recently, we have purchased two workstations with Windows XP Professional
> and using a VPN connection, and then the Remote Desktop Connection the
> Windows XP Professional users can log to their Desktop with no problems
> when they are out-of-office ...
>
> I have upgraded a couple of workstations from Windows 2000 to Windows
> XP Professional ... Then tried to log remotely using a VPN connection and
> access the upgraded workstions using Remote Desktop Connection, but I get
> the following message when I try to log to the workstation:
>
> "The local policy does not permit you to logon interactively"
>
> When I logged as a local Administrator to that specific workstation, I
> found that under Administrative Tools, Local Security Policy, Local
> Policies, User Rights Assignment, Log on Locally everything is set
> correctly in terms of the Users and Groups which are allowed to access
> this machine (Administrator / Users / Everyone ... etc.)
>
> I have also checked the second workstation which I have upgraded to
> Windows XP Professional and the same problem presist ...
>
> Also, I have used NTRights.exe to force the "Log on Locally", but no
> success ...
>
> Kindly help me with that issue as I don't want to go through the route of
> clean installation of the Wondows XP Pro and all the applications ...
>
> Thank you in advance for your cooperation ...
>
> Reda Hanna

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